Solicitors who specialise in helping female victims of Domestic Violence have been providing free, clandestine legal support to suspected victims of family violence, in hospital settings, while they have been receiving treatment for suspicious injuries. ..

A man has lost his legal bid for a share of his ex-wife’s $6 million lotto win after an appeal court found the ticket was bought when the pair were leading separate lives…

Children should get more of a say during family law battles about who they live with after their parents split, says National Children’s Commissioner Megan Mitchell…

The spate of cases raises questions about the legal rights a child born to an overseas surrogate has in Australia, and what rights Australians who engage in surrogacy agreements have in Thailand and other countries..

A married couple have chosen to live in Lebanon, but have frequented Australia for the birth of each of their children, solely for the purpose of claiming a raft of family-based welfare payments…

In this case a successful businessman did everything in his power to prevent his estranged wife from residing in the former matrimonial home, even concocting a late night fire sale of the house to a mystery buyer…

This is the case of notorious solicitor Michael Ryan, who had numerous lovers, many of them prostitutes, who have all made claims on his $8m estate as his de facto lovers, with varying degrees of success. ..

ONE of the nation’s top judges has called for a separate, less ­formal tribunal to deal with family law cases involving extreme domestic violence, arguing that the current adversarial system is not the right place for women who have been badly abused…

Judges who travel to regional areas to hear family law disputes are handling up to 70 matters a week and sitting until as late as 8pm to get through their caseloads…

A conference – hosted by the Riverina Family Law Pathways Network (RFLPN) – in Wagga yesterday delved into ways to better approach mental health in the context of family law…